The last time I spent quality time with Maine’s Coke Weed was in 2013 when their third album, Back To Soft<\/i>, was impressing the hell out of me. Though the band had built a name for themselves in the area of folk-rock, the move into louder, fuzzy versions of retro-rock piqued my interest, to put it mildly. Mary Weaver<\/i>, released just two short years later, was rumored to bring David Bowie and Iggy Pop influences to the forefront, which seems like a fantastic idea.<\/p>\n
There seem to be two distinct textures on the album. While several songs are introspective and calmer, and allow front woman Nina Donghia’s silky smooth yet dark vocals to shine; others, especially the second half of the album, are less classifiable. Early songs like album opener \u201cMalocchio\u201d and the following tune \u201cThe Chill\u201d are armed with sultry, late night indie-rock feelings, while \u201cI Could Be So Real\u201d delivers an eccentric version of New Wave and pop. <\/p>\n
Elsewhere, primarily on the deeper cuts, is when things get louder and more rock focused, especially on the ’70s guitar riffs of \u201cNew Jive,\u201d and \u201cShortest Night,\u201d which brings in a subtle grunge influence, although from a sophisticated angle. \u201cAll The Shades\u201d keeps with the louder theme of the second half of the album, not sounding too far off from the contemplative side of ’90s alt-rock. <\/p>\n
I supposed you might call Coke Weed a psyche-rock effort, but there’s more going on that just that. Never shy with reverb and happy to embrace funk and surf rock, the multi-dimensional vocals from Donghia and precise execution from the band put Mary Weaver <\/i>near the top of their impressive body of work. <\/i>If the Velvet Underground existed today and grew up on Belle and Sebastian and Cat Power, they might be something riveting that sounds like Coke Weed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9238],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45196","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-coke-weed","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45196"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}